![]() This negotiation between the loud demands for equality and opportunity and continued marginalisation has perhaps been best represented in English poetry by Chandramohan S. ![]() “The Dalit lives in no-time,” writes Yengde, quoting Martin Heidegger. (This is often the bedrock of the Savarna argument against affirmative action.) But, as with race, matters of caste are often more complicated than they seem. This might seem a little counter-intuitive: If Dalits have found greater access to privileges then how can they still claim to be marginalised. “In the revolutionary age of technologies of communication and new expressions of freedom, Dalits are claiming their rightful position in the armours of justice and democracy.” “It is now able to articulate loudly and clearly through words and action – becoming more global and more reachable than ever,” he writes in Caste Matters (2019). ![]() Dalit scholar Suraj Yengde claims that the Dalit community is having a “Harlem moment”. ![]()
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